Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...among the hills, drops in on Charles Post (as Stephen Strange-way, hillman), lets herself in for his strong-man love. He does not recover until there has been displayed a good deal of vamping, counter-vamping, and ancient details of the Hollywood "sugar-papa" system. The scenario was lifted from the quivering pages of E. Phillips Oppenheim, but Charles Post's abdomen and eyebrows are as depressing as ever...
...wherewith Sinclair Lewis endowed him, strung about with a few chunks of cinematic laughter-bait, dangled rakishly by Director Beaumont inside the standard triangle frame. Corporeal flesh the producers could and did obtain, in the not unconvincing shape of fat Willard Louis, hitherto unknown. But of spiritual tegument the scenario had none. For obvious reasons, Tanis Judique, middle aged and harmless in the novel, was sent to the boudoir and brought out a sleek, home-wrecking creature (Carmel Myers). Mary Alden, the Babbitt wife, has played frumpy parts until they are second nature...
...Jesse L. Lasky, taking a script of the film version of Peter Pan to show Sir James M. Barrie; Jeanne Eagels, famed actress; Mrs. Margaret Talmadge, mother of the three famed Talmadge sisters ; John Emerson, President of the Actors' Equity Association, and his wife, Anita Loos, the director and scenario writer; E. E. Fernandi, "Rockefeller of Peru"; Benjamin Winchell, Remington Typewriter President ; Edna Ferber, novelist...
Painted People. Colleen Moore has collected for herself so much reputation that her managers, forgetting themselves entirely, let her loose with a surpassingly stupid scenario. It is probable that Miss Moore will know better next time. From the theatre pit she can see herself as others see her?striving desperately with impossible material, and by no means...
Slave of Desire. The scenario is taken from Balzac's The Magic Skin. About half way through Poet Raphael (hero) meets the Magic Skin and things proceed to happen. The latter is one of those skins you love to touch. All you have to do is touch it and make a wish. Liquor, ladies and lullabies come romping in. The only difficulty was that Raphael got only so many wishes to the inch. Each wish shrunk the skin. When it reached the size of his palm he was to be introduced socially to the Grim Reaper. Before that occurred...